Painful week ends with a much needed Cupcake!

I am a lover of all things sweet and fun.  This past week was neither.  Boo hiss.  I had a little bit of a medical emergency earlier in the week which put me out of commission for three days at the toy store.  I hate being sick and missing work which is why I basically never do it.  Could not be helped this week.  A nice side to the whole situation was seeing how great my staff is, which I, of course, already knew.  :)  I really cannot say enough nice things about the girls that work for me in the store.  They put up with standing on their feet all day, dealing with mean customers and crying kids, lots of deliveries and sometimes lots of downtime, but they always come through for me and do their best.  I actually called for coverage from the ER, while laying on a gurney with an IV in my arm, and my Saturday Sidekick cancelled her appointments for the day and worked the afternoon, even though it would mean working 6 out of 7 days this week.  They all rearranged their schedules to cover my absence.  Love them more than I can say.  I hope they all know it!
After three days at home I had enough and headed into work on Saturday.  I wasn't sure how I was going to feel but I really needed to get back to the store.  Saturday was my LAST Cupcake Saturday with my Saturday Sidekick.  :(  She is leaving me to go to grad school at the end of this coming week.  I knew that we both deserved cupcakes after the hellish week we both had!  Unfortunately, the dreaded Boston Creme Pie was the flavor of the day, so we decided to go Old School and get ones we both knew we enjoyed.  Mine is always Funfetti....which was soooo good and sugary.  It has a vanilla cupcake with rainbow jimmies throughout and is topped with pink strawberry frosting that is also jammed packed with jimmies.  I think I have mentioned before that I wish this one had creme in the middle, but honestly with my weakened state it might have been just too much sugar for my system!  :) Just what I needed in my worn out state.  My Sidekick got Rockin' Red Velvet, which I will assume was good since she was pretty quiet once she dug in.  :)  She also declared it delicious, which is a good sign. 
Ah, the last official Cupcake Saturday.  I am planning on continuing the tradition, but I might be working solo on Saturdays due to the slowing down of the business in the fall.  I am not sure how the hours of Cupcake Charlie's will coincide with my hours either so I might not be able to continue the tradition faithfully.  I will try my best.  My sidekick and I have promised each other to at least have some sort of Sweet Saturday across the miles (she is only in Boston, but it seems sooooo far) and we are going to email each other pics of our weekly treats.  I will keep this updated, even if it ends up being something sweet but not Cupcake Charlie's.  I think I like the idea of Sweet Saturday!  It broadens my horizons. Time to break out and try other sweet treats besides cupcakes, right?  Anyway, let's hope this week is much sweeter than the last!

Cupcake Saturday catching up to do!

Hello Cupcake Saturday fans!  I have had a busy, busy, busy past few weeks and am just now catching up on my Cupcake Saturday adventures!  Work has been busy with the tourist season kicking into high gear and my home life has been busy with lots of visitors to the beach house!  Neither of these has completely gotten in the way of Cupcake Saturday celebrations, but it has changed it a bit and has definitely gotten in the way of me writing about it!  Hopefully I can catch up with this entry and be back on track by next Saturday! :)
So, going back about three weeks, I had a surprise visitor at work!  My friend, E, had returned back to the Cape after living in another state for a few months!  I worked with him at my previous job and always love seeing him so I was glad to hear and see that he was back.  He also has been following my cupcake adventures on my Facebook page and took it upon himself to bring me a Orange Dreamcicle cupcake for my Cupcake Saturday celebration!  Yay!  The Dreamcicle is one of my faves and coming from E as a special delivery really made me smile.  It threw off the Cupcake Saturday tradition of going and picking them out, etc...but my Saturday Sidekick is pretty easy going and had no problem picking up one on her own.  When she did-added bonus-we officially completed our punch card which means that our next cupcake would be FREE!  Fantastic!  We were already planning for the next week!  :)

So, onto the next week and we were CRAZY busy at the store!  The last day that was crazy busy was July 4th weekend, which I had taken off to spend time with my visiting Mom.  This particular Saturday was a little overcast and not a beach day so we were busy, busy, busy alllllll day long.  I was craving my cupcake from the time my feet hit the floor of my bedroom that morning so I was hoping that all of the store traffic wouldn't interfere with the celebration!  I checked the Facebook page for Cupcake Charlie's all morning hoping that the Flavor of the Day would be something spectactular....and it didn't disappoint!  The Flavor of the Day, which both of us got, was Chocolate Covered Cherry.  It was sooooo delicious.  The cupcake was a deep chocolate filled with cherry filling and topped with chocolate frosting and a cherry sitting in a pool of more cherry filling.  It was decadent and very rich.  I seriously could feel the sugar coursing through my veins afterwards.  I am officially naming this my fave of the chocolate filled variety...so good.  Best part?  We used our punch card and only had to pay for ONE!  Two for one deliciousness!  Can't beat that!  :)

Okay...and onto this week!  It has been a hectic week for me at the store.  All of my girls are leaving me and returning to college by Labor Day.  I lose two girls this week and the other two next week.  The hours at the Commons change to short hours after Labor Day so I have been looking for someone to cover my days off after the summer season-basically someone to replace my Saturday Sidekick.  Sadness.  It hasn't been an easy road.  Not many applicants and those applying are not suitable for so many reasons....not enough room on a page to go into.  Finally, this week I had an application from a young woman who looked like a hopeful.  I interviewed her and liked her very much.  She got rave reviews from her references.  She started Saturday.  :)  I am optimistic that I will be all set for the fall season.  Fingers crossed.  Bonus is that she (I will call her B) mentioned her love of ice cream and sweets during our interview....Cupcake Saturday participant??  :)
Two more weeks of Cupcake Saturday with my current sidekick and I cannot tell you how much I am going to miss her, and not just because of our Cupcake Saturdays.  She is a smart and funny girl and I am going to miss chatting with her on a weekly/daily basis.   I will be sad to have my last cupcake with her next week.  :(  We both mentioned it this week and it is the main reason we decided to go for flavors that are regular flavors at Cupcake Charlie's that we haven't tried before.  She got the Carly's chocolate chip cookie, which she loved and I got Granny's Carrot Cake which was really, really good.  The frosting was a cream cheese frosting and the carrot cake was moist and delicious.  I really enjoyed it and it was really satisfying.  Glad I finally got the chance to try it.  One more Cupcake Saturday with my sidekick next week....boo hiss.  Until then...